by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 22, 2014 | Features
I was initially assigned to the general duty section of the Detective Bureau. We investigated every kind of major felony, but mostly kept track of burglaries in our respective areas. Three of us were assigned to the same unit, to cover the days when one of us was off....
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 16, 2014 | Features
The first day that I was assigned to work a one man police squad was – different. Of course I was anxious, as all cops are under that condition. But a short while later my anxiety turned to a sort of bravado. I was young. What did I know? My assignment was in a very...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 8, 2014 | Features
A gruesome murder that created many weeks of Milwaukee Journal newspaper headlines created much, much more than the description of a crime and an acknowledgment of the fear that rippled through the city. International intrigue eventually grew from the violence and the...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 1, 2014 | Features
The detectives had put the murder in the cold case file some months earlier. There had been no evidence whatsoever: No witnesses, forensics, and of course, no suspects.. The victim was an elderly woman who owned a grocery store in what had slowly – but surely – become...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 24, 2014 | Features
The Milwaukee lakefront drug parties that flourished in the late 1960s and early 1970s were a sight to behold. The group of people attending on weekends during decent weather were little more than a wakeful, hallucinatory bad dream. I worked undercover at dozens of...
